San Diego Breaks Gas Price Record

(SAN DIEGO, March 4, 2008)– San Diego set a new regular unleaded gas price record today at $3.518, inching past its previous record price of $3.503 set on May 8, 2007, according to the Automobile Club of Southern California.

San Diego joins several other California cities – all in northern California – that have already broken price records this month. San Francisco is the major metropolitan area with the state’s highest gas price average at $3.643. Most Southern California cities are within a penny or two of setting new price records.

“Prices have been rising very quickly and very early in the year from a point that wasn’t very low to begin with,” said Auto Club spokesperson Jeffrey Spring. “The cheapest average price so far this year in San Diego was $3.07 on Feb. 4.”

San Diego’s previous record prices for each year since 2000 are:

Oct. 8, 2000: $1.894

May 23, 2001: $2.02

2002: No record price surpassing $2.02. Highest recorded price average was $1.68 on April 15.

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The Automobile Club of Southern California is a member club affiliated with the American Automobile Association (AAA) national federation and serves members in the following California counties: Inyo, Imperial, Kern, Los Angeles, Mono, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Tulare, and Ventura.